Likewise.

It's a BMW. The driving experience puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.

Facebook and Twitter are the last things on my mind.

Given that Minis are built by BMW, I'm guessing your system is very much the same as iDrive.

I own a BMW with the current generation of iDrive, and it is much better than the first incarnations. The control knob quickly becomes intuitive. The current level of iPhone integration is very good. The BMW Connected and BMW Remote apps work as advertised.

I'm not an Apple fanboi, I would not own one if they could not be easily jailbroken, so I'm not thrilled at the idea of an entirely Apple based infotainment system, but I do appreciate a system that integrates well, hopefully with many types of smartphones.

You should be happy you have government vetted pedophiles protecting you from potential kiddie terrorists!

from their governments. Everywhere. They are not your friend.

Strong crypto, anonymizing proxies, onion routing....

It's not just for users in China and Iran anymore.

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

I's be very uncomfortable running an RDP terminal server exposed to the internet. I highly recommend tunneling over SSH.

I use OpenSSH on my (jailbroken) iPhone, and the free 2X RDP client to connect remotely into my home Windows machine. I assume there are SSH apps from the App Store that will let you set up tunneling as well.

The screen is still too small to do any real work (would be better on an iPad or other tablet), but it's OK for quickly checking up on things and is pretty responsive on 3G.

must have given him some new ideas to incorporate into this legislation.

Good thing for onion routing and anonymous proxies. They are not just for users in China and Iran any more............

Carrying a smart phone is far easier than carrying a cell phone....and a GPS, and a music player, and a digital still/video camera, and a PDA, and a portable game device......

I do have enough pockets in the cargo pants I usually wear for all of those things, but combining them into one also leaves me room for a wallet, pocketknife, keys, papers, change, etc

Otherwise I'd need a backpack.

If you have a functioning, pre 4.3.4 iOS, even if Apple has stopped signing it.

http://ih8sn0w.com/index.php/products/view/ifaith.snow

to protect against the increasingly likely future that your car will routinely spy on you, either through simple complacency, or outright legislation.